Quantum Entanglement - "connectivity is THE property of quantum mechanics"
Physicists are going to be the new mystics. I feel it. What we are - what we exist within - what "reality" is, they refer to as a "field of pure potentiality". How incredible! Imagine the transformation that could take place if humans deeply discover this! When I think of how a fearful, cynical, divisive consciousness has manifested in the world, clips like these convince me that peaceful consciousness can manifest as pervasively.
This is Gandhi all over again. You are infectious - your mind is quantum-ly entangled with everything else that exists. By being in a present, love-motivated state, you emit it, you affect everything around you, and that is not a little thing, that is a beam of light! "Be the change" he said, just BE it, no need to scream it from the rooftops or pull your hair out trying to cause waves of awakening in the population.
Your aware presence, your stilled mind, your open heart - are so powerful, in ways we cannot even fathom.
Quantum physics shows that the state of a particle or particles is not a static, discriminately knowable thing. In fact, it is the opposite. Active, influential, mysteriously continuous and connected to the observer.
Are we going to realize in a few hundred years, like Copernicus did, that our senses are not the determiners of truth? - that our perception of reality is only a perception, and that underneath the vast and varied menu of forms in the world lies a single, eternal force that we all emanate from and eventually return to? Are we going to understand that our thinking, chattering minds are NOT the totality of what we deem our "selves" and that a vast "field of potentiality" exists beyond it? One that we all share - so in fact, we are not separate selves? Will this mean the dawn of compassion and the end of the frantic race? Man I love it when science and faith play nice together!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcKDvcnZrE&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSqrb3VK3c&feature=related
http://cam.qubit.org/articles/intros/entangle.php
Check out this excerpt from a paper by Michael Brooks:
http://www.biophysica.com/quantum.htm
"But these problems may be nothing compared to the bombshell that Caslav Brukner of the University of Vienna has just dropped. As if our current understanding of entanglement between widely separated particles were not sketchy enough, Brukner, working with Vedral and two other Imperial College researchers, has uncovered a radical twist. They have shown that moments of time can become entangled too (www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402127).
They achieved this through a thought experiment that examines how quantum theory links successive measurements of a single quantum system. Measure a photon's polarisation, for example, and you will get a particular result. Do it again some time later, and you will get a second result. What Brukner and Vedral have found is a strange connection between the past and the future: the very act of measuring the photon polarisation a second time can affect how it was polarised earlier on. "It's really surprising," says Vedral.
This entanglement between moments in time is so bizarre that it could expose a hole in the very fabric of quantum theory, the researchers believe. The formulation does not allow messages to be sent back in time, but it still means that quantum mechanics seems to be bending the laws of cause and effect. On top of that, entanglement in time puts space and time on an equal footing in quantum theory, and that goes sharply against the grain.
Space and time have always been very different in quantum theory. A location in space is an "observable" - like momentum or spin, spatial coordinates are just another property any quantum particle can have. The passing of time, on the other hand, has always been part of the backdrop. An electron can have a particular value of spin, or momentum or location, but it cannot have a particular time.
But if time can become entangled, it should be considered as an observable, and there is no way to write that into quantum theory. "People have tried, but something in quantum mechanics always has to be violated if you want a proper time-observable," Vedral says. "So it could be that something in quantum mechanics has to be reformulated."
In other words, Brukner's result suggests that we might be missing something important in our understanding of how the world works. Maybe that shouldn't surprise us. After all, entanglement between two spatially separated objects already tells us that space doesn't really have the form that classical physics says it does: instantaneous cause and effect across cosmological distances is not something that any theory of the universe can cope with. And now Brukner's result seems to extend this "impossibility" to events separated in time as well.
It's not cause for despair, though. We know that relativity and quantum theory have to be meshed together if we are to create a "final" theory of how the universe works. It is too early to read much into Brukner's result, but maybe it is a clue about how to produce such a theory."